CVE-2007-5462

Severity: high (CVSS 7.8 v2.0)
Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
EPSS: 2.2% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
Public exploit or detection template: none known
Published: 2007-10-15 · updated 2026-06-16
Weakness: CWE-20

Description

Unspecified vulnerability in the Sun Solaris RPC services library (librpcsvc) on Solaris 8 through 10 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (mountd crash) via unspecified packets to a server that exports many filesystems, and allows local users to cause a denial of service (automountd crash) via unspecified requests to mount filesystems from a server that exports many filesystems.

Affected products

Sun Solaris: 8.0, 9.0, 10.0

References

http://osvdb.org/40814
http://secunia.com/advisories/27183
http://secunia.com/advisories/27386
http://sunsolve.sun.com/search/document.do?assetkey=1-26-103082-1
http://sunsolve.sun.com/search/document.do?assetkey=1-66-200590-1
http://support.avaya.com/elmodocs2/security/ASA-2007-437.htm
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/26071
http://www.securitytracker.com/id?1018818
http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2007/3490
https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/37194
https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/37195
http://osvdb.org/40814

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